National University of Medical Sciences (Spain) is the largest and most affordable provider of osteopathic education worldwide, teaching in 68 countries. NUMSS teaches a number of online health related degree programs, including doctor of osteopathy (DO), doctor of naprapathy (DN), doctor of physical therapy (DPT), PhD in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and MBA in Health Care. Tuition is 2500 EURO per semester. www.numss.com

Sunday, 29 September 2013

I am glad to announce that one of the therapists of the S.C.
DAMASH, the largest football team of Rasht and Gilan (Iran) is a student of the
bachelor of science in osteopathy of the National University of Medical Sciences.

As I am from Rasht, this is such a great news for me to see
osteopathy is expanding where I grew up.

Saturday, 28 September 2013

How does osteopathy help patients with low back pain of mechanical origin?

There are a few known mechanism affecting individuals who receive osteopathic treatment for low back pain.

First
mechanism: Osteopathic spinal manipulation increases joint mobility by
producing a barrage of impulses in muscle spindle afferents and
smaller-diameter afferents ultimately silencing facilitated γ (gamma)
motoneurons as proposed by Korr. This theory is supported by several
recent studies by the Pickar lab and by findings that low back pain
patients have altered proprioceptive input from muscle spindles. Recent
work has also shown that that spinal manipulation modifies the discharge
of Group I and II afferents. This has been accomplished by recording
single-unit activity in muscle spindle and Golgi tendon organ afferents
in an animal model during manipulation.

A second mechanism is
that osteopathic spinal manipulation, by mechanically opening the
intravertebral foramina (IVF), decreases pressure on the dorsal roots.
Substantial evidence shows that the dorsal nerve roots and dorsal root
ganglia are susceptible to the effects of mechanical compression.
Compressive loads as low as 10 mg applied to dorsal roots increase the
discharge of Group I, II, III and IV afferents. This compression can
also alter non--impulse-based mechanisms (eg, axoplasmic transport) and
cause edema and hemorrhage in the dorsal root. Spinal manipulation
mechanically decreases the pressure in the IVF by gapping the facet
joints and opening the IVF. For instance, the synovial space of the
lumbar facet joints increases by about 0.7 mm in individuals receiving
manipulation. This doesn't seem like much, but as with any therapy there
is usually a course of care involved. Even in moderate stenosis
patients treated by osteopaths typically see significant pain reduction
following a period of 1-2 weeks of treatment.

A third mechanism
is based on findings that persistent alterations in normal sensory input
resulting from an injury can increases the excitability of neuronal
circuits in the spinal cord. Osteopathic spinal manipulation works by
applying non-noxious mechanical inputs to these circuits. This involves
mechanisms similar to the pain-gate theory proposed by Melzack and Wall
wherein activation of A-α and A-β fibers can reduce chronic pain and
increase pain threshold levels. This is supported by studies where
spinal manipulation of the lumbar region decreases central pain
processing as measured via pin-prick tests. Additional studies have
shown a reduction in central pain sensitivity after spinal manipulation
using graded pressure and noxious cutaneous electrical stimulation.

A
fourth mechanism involves β-endorphin mechanisms. Studies have shown
increases in beta-endorphin levels after osteopathic spinal manipulation but not
after control interventions.

Fifth mechanism: Substantial evidence
also shows that osteopathic spinal manipulation activates paraspinal muscle reflexes
and alters motoneuron excitability. These effects are still being
studied and appear to differ depending on whether performed on patients
in pain or pain-free subjects.

A sixth mechanism involves
inhibition of somatosomatic reflexes by alterations in muscle spindle
input produced by osteopathic spinal manipulation. It is thought that
osteopathic spinal manipulation may normalize spindle biomechanics and improve
muscle spindle discharge.

Lastly, in humans, osteopathic manual
treatment can decrease heart rate and blood pressure while increasing
vagal afferent activity as measured by heart-rate variability. Manual
therapies in rats have been shown to produce an inhibitory effect on the
cardiovascular excitatory response and reduce both blood pressure and
heart rate. Manual therapies such as osteopathic soft tissue therapy
have been shown to impact behavioral manifestations associated with
chronic activation of the HPA axis such as anxiety and depression, while
decreasing plasma, urinary, and salivary cortisol and urinary
corticotropin releasing factor-like immunoreactivity (CRF-LI). Manual
stimulation in rats has been shown to significantly increase
glucocorticoid receptor gene expression which enhanced negative feedback
inhibition of HPA activity and reduced post-stress secretion of ACTH
and glucocorticoid.

Wednesday, 18 September 2013

National University of Medical Sciences has now an admissions office in Tehran, Iran. Iranian physiotherapists, physicians, and others with previous health education who are interested in becoming an osteopath should contact our admissions office in Tehran.

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Dr Shahin Pourgol, president and one of the professors of
the National University of Medical
Sciences teaching osteopathic Counterstrain techniques. Strain/Counterstrain techniques are
osteopathic techniques developed by Dr Lawrence Jones, DO who passed away in
1996. These are indirect passive techniques, great for soft tissue injuries.

Saturday, 7 September 2013

The 2013 Canadian manual osteopathy job analysis report by the Council on
Manual Osteopathy Education indicates that the province of Ontario (Canada) has
a shortage of 2,500 manual osteopaths.

Currently there is only 1 osteopath per 20,000 people in
Ontario (0.05 per 1,000) while there
is 1 medical doctor per 500 people, 1 physiotherapist per 1,500 people and 1 chiropractor
per 3,000 people.

Health professionals such as physiotherapists, massage therapists, physicians, naturopaths, acupuncturists, homeopaths, kinesiologists, athletic therapists, and chiropractors should consider studying
osteopathy. You find employment quickly, or if you have your own clinic, you get tons of referrals. Most manual osteopaths in Ontario are fully booked and do not accept new patients. In Richmond Hill, Ontario there is a waiting list of 2 months to see a manual osteopath. Pay
starts at $30 per hour for new graduates and the average income for established
manual osteopaths is $90,000 per year. Over 95% of insurers in Ontario
reimburse for osteopathic care.

We would like to see patients in every corner of Ontario have access to osteopathic care and
we need your help to bring osteopathy to them. Enroll in one of our nine degree
programs to study osteopathy with the largest provider of osteopathic education
in the world. We teach European style manual osteopathy (no surgery, no
medications), in 65 cities of 35 countries.

National University of Medical Sciences (NUMSS) offers 30 degrees; including 9 in
osteopathy (BSc, MA, MSc, PhD, DO). NUMSS tuition is kept low at 1500 EURO per
semester to make osteopathic education affordable to students worldwide.

Health professionals such as physiotherapists, physicians, massage therapists,
occupational therapists, acupuncturists, homeopaths, and naturopaths may enroll
in our accelerated program and finish the 3 years full time bachelor of science
in osteopathy in only 6 months, or complete the 4 years Doctor of Osteopathy
degree program in just 1 year.

Our sister school, National Academy of Osteopathy (NAO) offers
an accelerated 4 months program for health practitioners in osteopathic manual
practice. Tuition for the NAO diploma in osteopathic manual practice (DOMP)
program for health practitioners is $5026 (Canadian). NAO program could be
taken online or in-campus at York University Heights in Toronto. Students can practice in our student clinic.

NAO & NUMSS are fully accredited by the Canadian Manual Osteopathy Examining Board
(CMOEB), International Osteopathic Association (IOA), Council on Manual
Osteopathy Education (CMOE), College of Osteopathic Manual Practitioners of
Ontario (COMPO), and many other organizations.

Our osteopathy programs are World Health Organization (WHO) compliant and our
graduates, upon successful passing of the board exams are permitted to receive
license numbers to bill insurers in Ontario.

There is zero unemployment in manual osteopathy profession in Ontario. Graduates
find employment easily and many open their own clinics. The Canadian Imperial
Bank of Commerce (CIBC) has chosen manual osteopathy as one of the top 25
occupations in demand in Canada (report published in 2012 in the Toronto Star
newspaper). To read the report click on the video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUhZdW8Mqog.

About Me

National University of Medical Sciences (Spain) offers a number of online on-demand health related degree programs worldwide including a doctor of osteopathy (DO), doctor of naprapathy (DN), PhD in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, doctor of physical therapy (DPT), MBA in health care (MBA), bachelor of science in osteopathy & master of science in athletic therapy.